Busted watches

[NWIASpotter]

Two of the latest SPC watches have been cancelled early once the storm had died, notice I said storm. Only one storm has met severe criteria in either of these watches, even last night the last watch they issued never had a warning in it i believe. Is it just me or is the SPC issuing a lot of watches lately???

[ssom04]

lol your right on sunday afternoon they issue a tornado watch till 10 and not ONE STORM developed............then this afternoon at around 4:00 they issue a severe thunderstorm watch then cancel it 2 hours and 30 minutes later lol.......the humidity was there and everything just nothing to get it triggered ..............might still have a chance late tonight or early tomorrow morning for some MCS to get going from the storms out in western south dakota but probably not gonna happen the two days were huge busts........now lets hope that tuesday isn't a repeat else SPC might get a bad name for its self

[Guest]

It is that capping inversion that is being underestimated. While the SPC kept a slight risk in my area tonight, our NWS pulled the storms fromm ALL the zones this evening.

Now, by the looks of radar up in that area, the NWS may want to add a chance for the Northeast Nebraska/SD border area as there are a few spotty cells out there near O' Neill.

But you are right, the past couple of years, the SPC just has not seemed with it. Not bashing them to death, but I have seen them do a much better job. Last year, we had THREE consecutive nights where a tornado watch was issued (might have one PDS thrown in there... don't remember), and all three nights the watch was canceled early without anything of significance developing.

[NWIASpotter]

Well they just issued a PDS thunderstorm watch for nw iowa and sw minnesota, I'm dead center in the middle of it, haha...I don't think they can go to wrong with this one, severe thunderstorms are already going and strengthening, winds up to 90 mph have been possible. It could get interesting.